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"This exceptional text fulfills two essential criteria of a good introductory textbook in the philosophy of language: it covers a broad range of topics well, all of which are the basis of current active research, and does so in an accurate manner accessible to undergraduate students." –Mike Harnish, University of Arizona
"...an excellent textbook for teaching. the examples throughout are delightful and students will love them." –Edwin Mares, Victoria University of Wellington
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Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction introduces the student to the main issues and theories in twentieth century philosophy of language, focusing specifically on linguistic phenomena.
Topics are structured in four parts in the book. Part I, Reference and Referring Expressions, includes topics such as Russell's Theory of Desciptions, Donnellan's distinction, problems of anaphora, the description theory of proper names, Searle's cluster theory, and the causal-historical theory. Part II, Theories of Meaning, surveys the competing theories of linguistic meaning and compares their various advantages and liabilities. Part III, Pragmatics and Speech Acts, introduces the basic concepts of linguistic pragmatics, includes a detailed discussion of the problem of indirect force and surveys approaches to metaphor. Part IV, new to this edition, examines the four theories of metaphor.
Features of Philosophy of Language include:
- new chapters on Frege and puzzles, inferentialism, illocutionary theories of meaning and relevance theory
- chapter overviews and summaries
- clear supportive examples
- study questions
- annotated further reading
- glossary.
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I study philosophy at the University of Southern Denmark, and this is where I was introduced to the book, which I guess can serve as a testament to the books content and readability.
I would strongly recommend against purchasing the Kindle version of this book unless or until the publisher releases a new edition. I would however like to point out that this is actually a rather good book, and this review should not discourage anyone reading it (in a legible form, that is: hard copy).
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